Vice President of Yunnan Province CPPCC: Should launch the general survey of food additive immediately

Vice President of Yunnan Province CPPCC: Should launch the general survey of food additive immediately
"One that is with food kind is abundant day by day, food additive becomes the things often touched in people's daily life. Whether however, present food additive various in style has danger to people's health on earth, people do not know. The relevant department should carry on general survey to all food additive as soon as possible, is it harmful to health to find out the additive. " Committee member Chen Xunru says. The materials reveal, our country has already had nearly 450,000 processing enterprises of food at present, more than 350,000 the following small enterprises of 10 people among them, small workshop, accounts for nearly 80% of total number; There are nearly 1,030,000 country fairs of food, more than 9,800,000 self-employed workers. Committee member Chen Xunru says, a large number of small enterprises, small workshops, self-employed workers, flowability, random and great, the consciousness of food security is relatively thin. Some produces and manages enterprises and pursues profits blindly, in order to meet consumer's mouthfeel and visual requirement, use a large number of additive, antistaling agent, preservative, pigment, essence, thickening agent,etc. in the food in violation of rules and regulations. Although these preparations can let shelf life lengthen, the color and luster is more vivid, more aromatic and more delicious for the food, but there are many preparations through any risk analysis and assessment, the potential safety hazard exists. For this reason, committee member Chen Xunru advises the government to arrange the special fund as soon as possible, organize the related departments to generally investigate food additive, antistaling agent, preservative, pigment, essence, thickening agent,etc. various adjuvants that our country produce in an all-round way once, clarify whether it is harmful to the human body. Do a good job of the source and prevent, purify the market, improve the regulation, carry out the food quality safety standard sound and strictly pointedly through general survey, implement strict market access system and food quality and is traced back to, recalls the system, guarantee the people's food's security. (Yin Hong)

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